Untitled
Robert Whitman
American, 1935–2024
(1964)
A pencil and colored-pencil drawing in which Robert Whitman arranges deep black ovals with smoky gray halos and jittery yellow strokes to suggest fleeting bursts of light or staged moments.
What first hits you are the velvety black centers that seem to float against the paper, their soft, smudged radiances contrasted by sparing, electric yellow scribbles along the right side.
Made in the mid-1960s, the drawing reflects Whitman’s bridging of drawing, performance, and installation—helping to make visible a new artistic interest in recording and evoking ephemeral, time-based events rather than fixed subjects.
Medium
Pencil and colored pencil on paper
Dimensions
22 1/4 x 24 x 1/2" (56.5 x 61 x 1.3 cm)
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Department
Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
3420.2005
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